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| St. Vincent – Paris Is Burning Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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This is the closest to it in my view. The song cleverly evokes all the various images mentioned in different posts: the French Revolution, WW2, the 2005 immigrant riots in Paris and so on but Annie Clark is savvy enough to understand the era defining importance of the 1968 riots across the western world - in the US as well - but infamously in Paris. 1968 was also the year of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, when up to 500 innocent civilians including many women and children were killed by US troops, and villages raised to the ground. I agree she writes on several different levels and invites listeners to draw their own conclusions. An impressive mind. |
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| St. Vincent – Severed Crossed Fingers Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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The triumph of finding hope where there is no reason for any to exist.
I won't edit the lyrics because I'm not sure but doesn't Annie sing 'Find my severed crossed fingers in the rubble there'? Otherwise the song's title isn't alluded to in the lyrics. |
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| Arcade Fire – Suburban War Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Are you sure about the different meanings? Look at the second stanza. Suburban War reprises the opening to the entire album, just as The Suburbs (Continued)does at the end, bringing it back in a loop. |
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| Arcade Fire – Suburban War Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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You're right to make that point about detail. I'm not sure even Win Butler and Regine Chassagne could interpret their own lyrics to the nth detail. Seems to me the song is simply about friends often being no more than passing ships in the night; they aren't together for long and that's something you learn from early on. Different musical and fashion tastes are but one way young people take off in their own direction and forsake acquaintances. Later in life the reasons get more serious. (Ignoring what I just aid about detail!)... I think the narrator might be talking about national service when he says 'you cut your hair, I never saw you again'. |
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| Arcade Fire – No Cars Go Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Fascinating theory. And if written by Owen Pallet that adds more weight as he is from Toronto I believe. The theory doesn't quite explain everything but Arcade Fire are noted for writing simpler and less esoteric lyrics than they are actually given credit for. And remember that Neon Bible touches on a whole raft of 'wrongs' in society in the first half of the noughties, not just religious issues. If true, then the last quarter of the song, the military march section, must, I presume, represent the protest march gathering steam? Just bear that in mind at a live performance when that drum beat starts up. |
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| Arcade Fire – Deep Blue Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Oops, found it, and it's Personal Jesus and it's still on http://www.arcadefire.com/blog/some-random-music-clips/
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| Arcade Fire – Deep Blue Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I believe the very track in question was posted on www.arcadefire.com until fairly recently on the Videos page. Not a lot of help I know but perhaps someone remembers what it was. Given Win Butler's age chances are it's from Violator, Songs of faith and devotion or Ultra. Possibly 'Lie to me' though Butler was only four when it came out (on Some Great Reward) but I think I recall reading his comment that he was a young teen at the time. |
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| Arcade Fire – City with No Children Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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The more I listen to this track, and bearing in mind similar references on other tracks (e.g. The Suburbs), the more I think Win Butler is asking (begging?) Regine to give him a child, before, as kidsonbuses intimates, it's too late. The consensus seems to be the song is about their own experience to date and if you interpret the City in the title as Arcade Fire itself, (a collective), then it might make sense? Taking it a stage further and de-personalising it from Win and Regine, I'm not aware of the demographics but how many of the band do have children? |
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